Meet the Directors

Malaria Consortium is governed by a Board of Trustees, which takes the major strategic decisions for the organisation. Day-to-day operational decision- making is delegated to the Executive Director, who, with the Senior Management Team, runs the organisation. The Senior Management Team consists of eight Directors with responsibilities for overseeing and managing the technical, management and finance functions, as well as programmes at regional and county level.

The Malaria Consortium Directors are:

• Sunil Mehra - Executive Director
• Dr Sylvia Meek - Technical Director
• Jocelyn Boughton - Chief Finance Officer
• Peter Newton - Programme and Business Development Director
• Dr Graham Root - Managing Director
• Dr Albert Kilian - Director, Monitoring & Evaluation
• Dr James Tibenderana - Case Management Director
• Kate Brownlow - Mozambique Country Director

Sunil Mehra - Executive Director
Sunil Mehra is the Executive Director of Malaria Consortium and brings over 20 years of experience of working with USAID, DFID and other donor programmes and projects. Currently, the Executive Director at Malaria Consortium, Sunil is recognised for strategic planning and programme development in areas of maternal health, child health, community development and communications. He has worked in over 20 countries in East and South Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Sunil specializes in leading cross-cultural teams; development, management and monitoring and evaluation; design and implementation of marketing and communications strategies; institutional development; human resource development including competency-based and problem-based methodologies.

Dr Sylvia Meek - Technical Director
Dr Sylvia Meek is the Technical Director of Malaria Consortium. For 9 years she was the Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine based Malaria Consortium (DFID Resource Centre for Malaria Control). Her work includes technical advice especially on programme design, management and evaluation and technical leadership and strategy development of Malaria Consortium. She is also part of the Roll Back Malaria Working Group on Case Management. Overall she has 25 years work on malaria control and was previously with WHO in Solomon Islands, Namibia and Cambodia and with World Food Programme and UNDP setting up and running vector- borne disease control programmes for 200,000 refugees. Dr Meek has an MA in Zoology, an MSc in Animal Parasitology, and a PhD in mosquito genetics and control (filariasis vectors).

Jocelyn Boughton - Chief Finance Officer
Jocelyn Boughton is the Chief Financial Officer of Malaria Consortium. Jocelyn joined Malaria Consortium in 2009 from Lloyds TSB Foundation for England & Wales, an organisation giving grants to local charities, where she was Director of Finance & Administration.  Prior to this she completed three years as a Management Advisor based in Nepal with an HIV/AIDS NGO. Before moving into the not-for-profit sector she worked in the commercial and retail sector in a number of different roles including Operations Director, Finance Director, Financial Controller, Project Manager and Group Financial Accountant. Jocelyn qualified as a chartered accountant (ICAEW) in 1988 with Arthur Young – now part of Ernest and Young.

Peter Newton - Programme and Business Development Director
Peter Newton is the Programme and Business Development Director of Malaria Consortium.  He provides guidance and support to the Senior Management Team on a range of strategic and programme related issues.  The advocacy, communications and fundraising teams also report to him.  Mr. Newton is on secondment to Malaria Consortium from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).  His most recent position at CIDA was Deputy Director of the Health and Nutrition Division where he and his teams managed Canada’s investments in the Global Fund for Aids, TB and Malaria, measles, malaria, micronutrients, other child survival initiatives, as well as Canada’s Food Aid portfolio.   Mr. Newton began his career in the field as a junior professional officer in the UN system in 1993, working in Somalia and Liberia. After qualifying for CIDA in 1996, he managed several of CIDA’s programmes in Ghana, Sierra Leone and Nigeria from Ottawa.  He also participated in a previous leave programme with UNDP where he was promoted to Deputy Resident Representative before returning to CIDA. 

Dr Graham Root - Managing Director
Dr Graham Root is the Managing Director of Malaria Consortium. Dr Root has more than 10 years field experience in international health and development in sub-Saharan Africa. Since 1998 he has worked on malaria control, including for WHO, DFID and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, providing technical and policy level support to Ministries of Health and RBM partners. Dr Root specialises in partnership building, strategy and policy development, monitoring and evaluation, ITNs and epidemiology. He is a member of the Roll Back Malaria Working Groups on Monitoring and Evaluation and Communication. Prior to working on malaria, he has worked on child survival, diarrhoeal diseases, Protein Energy Malnutrition and the use of geographical information systems for disease surveillance. Dr Root has a multidisciplinary background including a Masters Degree in Demography and PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Liverpool.

Dr Albert Kilian - Director, Monitoring & Evaluation
Dr. Albert Kilian is the Director of Monitoring & Evaluation of Malaria Consortium. From 2003-2005 he was CDC/USAID Uganda’s Senior Malaria Advisor and responsible for providing technical support on malaria control to the Ministry of Health and overseeing USAID’s malaria activities and projects in-country including NetMark. Dr Kilian is a Public Health Expert (communicable disease control with emphasis on malaria), Malariologist and Paediatrician. Dr Kilian has 13 years experience in public health including ten years in developing countries working at the district and national levels. He has designed and managed disease control programmes including on all aspects of malaria control (treatment/drug policy, prevention/ITNs, and epidemics). He has also worked for German Technical Cooperation at Headquarters level. Dr Kilian has carried out malaria and public health consultancies in over ten countries in Africa and Asia and has intensive research experience with over 50 publications on public health. For the last five years, Dr Kilian has monitored and supported growth of the commercial ITN market in Uganda and led long-term trials on the efficacy of LLINs.

Dr James Tibenderana - Case Management Director
Dr James Tibenderana is the Case Management Director of Malaria Consortium and is co-ordinating our DFID Uganda funded support to the drug policy change process in Uganda. This includes consensus building, training materials and guideline development, health worker training, ACT availability in the private sector, use of rapid diagnostic tests, piloting the use of ACT at community level and improving management of severe malaria. Dr Tibenderana is a medical doctor and holds a PhD on the management of severe malaria from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Previously, Dr Tibenderana has worked at the central and district levels in Uganda on communicable disease control.

Kate Brownlow - National Director, Malaria Consortium Mozambique
Kate Brownlow is the National Director of Malaria Consortium Mozambique and is currently Chairperson of NAIMA+, a network of international NGOs working in health and HIV. She has been in Mozambique for nearly 9 years, working for five of these at provincial level before moving to Maputo to represent Malaria Consortium, developing and consolidating its role as an appreciated and respected malaria and health partner in Mozambique. Her multicultural background means she is able to successfully work with a variety of partners and a combination of objectives with the key aim of supporting Mozambique reduce its malaria burden. Kate works closely with national partners, particularly the Ministry of Health, to ensure communities are the ultimate beneficiary of health promotion and curative actions. Kate’s experiences as a teacher in South East and Australasia, as well as Europe, have brought a high level of adaptability to her open and communicative leadership style. Having worked for nearly nine years in development and the Mozambican health sector, Kate is recognized as reliable, with high programmatic capacity and strategic thinking, including expertise in institutional development.